[samtheman]

Another general windows beef that maybe somebody can help me with:

Situation: I try to go to a network share on my LAN on a server that is temporarily unavailable.

Result: It takes freaking FOREVER for the attempt to time out, during which it sometimes even freezes my entire computer (not just the windows explorer window where I made the connection attempt).

Is there a registry setting that shortens that time-out time?

Thanks.

[Notary Sojac]

I suggest a web search for “Windows (version you use) TCP/IP Registry Entries”, as always, tweak the registry with care and with a backup.